This interests me primarily because the primitive steampunk not-yet-computers in the Gryphon Clerks series use fiber optics. (When I researched it, I was surprised and pleased to discover that glass fiber was invented in the early 19th century. Not that it would have stopped me if it hadn’t been, but it’s nice to know that that technology level is capable of producing optical fiber. And, unlike the early Victorians, my engineers have the ability to produce a reliable, maybe even coherent, light source.)

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